On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rabbul Nawaz wrote:
I am working on deepOfix, one of the distribution of GNU/Linux which
follows debian based packaging [ http://code.deeproot.in/deepofix/ ]. I
would like to know, the procedure how the debian-installer detects the
existing partition labels and
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
I'm only a user and a tester, so I don't get to vote, but I'd go for
Of course you get to vote (and vote here is more just an expression of
preference than an official count anyway).
the increased utility of dropping ppc from the
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Andrew Lee wrote:
So the question would be source vs ppc arch support, which is more
useful for our users on the multi-arch DVD for the purpose?
I think only people who don't have good internet connection would need
source packages. And I guess rare of these
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 13:34:12 Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rabbul Nawaz wrote:
I am working on deepOfix, one of the distribution of GNU/Linux which
follows debian based packaging [ http://code.deeproot.in/deepofix/ ]. I
would like to know, the procedure how the
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:23:49PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 29 December 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
Unable to determine geometry of file/device /dev/nbd0. You should not
use Parted unless you REALLY know what you're doing!
This message comme straight from libparted. From a
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop. The
only thing missing is offering boot options to select different desktop
environments as we'll now do for x86, but that could possibly be
implemented by someone
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:47:58PM +0530, Rabbul Nawaz wrote:
Thanks for the quick respose. Installing libparted, and all its dependencies
including all the libraries inside the rootfs environment would definetely
increase the size of the rootfs. Moreover it would require a static
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop.
The only thing missing is offering boot options to select different
desktop environments as we'll now do for
Package: win32-loader
Priority: wishlist
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Version:
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On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
It's really just the fact that the device has a size of zero. Once
they're connected, parted has no problems understanding what they are
like.
In that case 30parted should _only_ skip devices with a size of zero, so
you need a solid method
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alle Frauen gehe ich fuer mein Leben gerne shoppen! Allerdings lege ich es
dabei nicht so sehr darauf an, mit vollen Taschen nach Hause zu gehen,
sondern mich in einer Umkleidekabine von einem heissen Mann verwoehnen zu
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:40:22PM +0100, helix84 wrote:
Package: win32-loader
Priority: wishlist
Tags: l10n patch
Version:
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:26:13PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:40:22PM +0100, helix84 wrote:
Package: win32-loader
Priority: wishlist
Tags: l10n patch
Version:
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Package: console-setup
Version: 1.28
Severity: minor
While using splashy, during boot, the display flickers then become
entirely black except the splashy progress bar.
If I skip the console-setup init script, the problem doesn't happen.
I have tested different console-setup/fontface without
On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop.
The only thing missing is offering boot options to select
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD,
doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather
than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient for the
user. IMHO, doing it at boot time violates
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB stick
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2008-12-29
Machine: Generic DG965-based PC
Processor: Intel Q6600
Memory: 4GB
Partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB,
Shouldn't an OS installer execute destructive modifications *after* the
user has performed configuration options and confirms them just before
the OS installation? It seems rather evil for an installer to modify
the hard disks' partition before all configuration options are chosen.
It seems like
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.38
Severity: normal
At first
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: following instructions on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/
Image version:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
I think we have the following options here:
1) keep the m-a DVD as it is: GNOME only and i386/amd64/ppc/source
(3rd column in 1st table, or 1st column in 2nd table)
2) drop ppc from existing m-a DVD, GNOME only, but with hugely
This is an abortive attempt at an installation report.
A full report was subsequently submitted.
Sorry for the noise!
Rick
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Lenny - Official RC amd64 NETINST
Binary-1 20081104-23:38
Date: 20081104-23:38
Machine: Acer Aspire 2920Z
Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
In section B.4.3 of the installation guide
(http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-network-console),
the option to choose the
network-console module is presented as follows:
#d-i anna/choose-modules string network-console
but
Package: win32-loader
Severity: wishlist
I think it would be good if win32-loader could detect various Windows
software and prompt the user to install the equivalents available in
Debian. FOSS software for Windows could be directly mapped to the Debian
packages. Machines containing games could
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:30:15PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
Package: win32-loader
Severity: wishlist
I think it would be good if win32-loader could detect various Windows
software and prompt the user to install the equivalents available in
Debian. FOSS software for Windows could be directly
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 05:04 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
I think it would be more useful to migrate the settings for those applications
than the list of installed apps itself. Note that the default desktop task
already contains a balanced selection of programs that includes Iceweasel,
OOo and
On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:47:58PM +0530, Rabbul Nawaz wrote:
Thanks for the quick respose. Installing libparted, and all its
dependencies
including all the libraries inside the rootfs environment would
definetely
increase the size of
On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD,
doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather
than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient for the
Your message dated Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:41:06 +0100
with message-id 20081231064105.gh2...@deprecation.cyrius.com
and subject line Re: Bug#510263: Please close this bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #510263,
regarding installation-report: installing Lenny on a slug - eventually
successful after
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
for some reason it decided
that the DNS domain was example.org, not the one being
offered by DHCP.
For what it's worth:
Normal installs (on the console, not via SSH) on PowerPC Macs and
i386 PCs on this subnet, using this DHCP server, don't
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